Saturday, March 24, 2007

France became the first country to open its files on UFOs Thursday when the national space agency unveiled a website documenting more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades.

The online archives, which will be updated as new cases are reported, catalogues in minute detail cases ranging from the easily dismissed to a handful that continue to perplex even hard-nosed scientists.

The website itself -- which crashed host servers hours after it was unveiled due to heavy traffic, and still not working...remains to seen...